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 TORONTO (AP) - Only one-fourth of the people who need drugs to fight the AIDS virus have access to these lifesaving medicines, scientists told a global AIDS summit Wednesday, but the news wasn't all bad.
In sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of the nearly 39 million people with HIV live, the number on drug therapy passed 1 million for the first time — a tenfold increase since 2003.
"The combined erts of donors, affected nations, U.N. agencies and public health authorities are providing substantial, ongoing increases in access to lifesaving HIV treatment," said Dr. Kevin De Cock, director of the World Health Organization's AIDS program.
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